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This year marks 100 years since the birth of Australian artist Sidney Nolan. A new exhibition at the Australian High Commission in London opens later this month, featuring Nolan’s final four abstract spray-painted murals for the first time. To celebrate the Australian art icon’s centenary, we’d like to see your own spray paint artwork.

This is a piece from a series called, Circa, which is about the speed of technological change. Each piece in the series is meant to represent an example of something that is or was ubiquitous now or a short time ago, which is becoming, will become, or has become obsolete. To emphasize how quickly this happens, I have made each piece resemble something unearthed in an archaeological dig. Circa 2009a, represents a section of wall that existed Circa 2009, and was discovered in 2020. It depicts spray painted torn music posters and an ad featuring two girls using cell phones. The exhibition that this piece was part of, mimicked a museum display that projected viewers into the future to experience just how soon what is familiar today will be jettisoned into the past.